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Sprint to Buy Virgin Mobile USA; Deepens Prepaid Biz
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Shares of Virgin Mobile USA (VM), a part of Sir Richard Branson’s privately held Virgin Group, are up 97 cents, or 23%, at $5.18 today after Sprint Nextel (S) announced it will acquire the firm for $5.50 per share in Sprint stock, for a total consideration of $483 million. Sprint, which already held a roughly 13% interest in the company, will acquire the portion held by Virgin Group and by South Korean carrier SK Telecom (SKT). <>Virgin Mobile USA, which has roughly 5 million subscribers, brings Sprint more deeply into the pre-paid mobile business, as that has been most of Virgin Mobile USA>...
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Stocks Going Ex Dividend during the Last Week of July
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If you want to try the stock trading technique called 'Buying Dividends,' which is the process of buying stocks before the ex dividend date and selling the stock shortly after the ex date at about the same price, yet still being entitled to the dividend, there are many stocks to choose from. This technique generally works only in bull markets.
When you buy dividends, there are many stocks in many different sectors to choose from. In order to be entitled to the dividend, you have to buy the stock before the ex-dividend date, and you can't sell the stock until after the ex date. The actual div...
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Anticipation for the New Week...
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Anticipation or being enthusiastic, is an emotion involving pleasure (and sometimes anxiety) in considering some expected or longed-for good event.
Anticipation can culminate in a rewarding and satisfying experience, wouldn't you agree?
Events of interest for the week of, March 3rd - 7th, include:
Monday:
<>KEG Analyst Meeting; CTXS, GOOG, HPQ, MOT, JAVA, VRSN, CREL at Morgan Stanley Technology Conf; GLUU, BCSI, GLOW, FTWR, INAP, LCCI at Merriman Curhan Ford, & Co. 2nd Annual IP Video Conf; HME, OFC, WRI, AKR, TCO, CLP at Citigroup Global Property CEO Conf; LNC, XL, ALL, AGII, UNM at AIFA Annual>...
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